Conclusions

What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

• To take a random guess at something.

• To draw a good guess based on evidence and detail from a passage, as well as your own personal experience.

• To draw a good guess based on the mood that you are in that day.

Read this draft of Devon's letter. Which of these sentences is the BEST conclusion for this letter?

• I hope you consider giving to this very worthy cause.

• People should be helping the school more often.

• I know you have a busy schedule, but maybe you could fit in our event.

• You should give us money because our school has done a lot for the community.

The conclusion of an argumentative essay should...

• Summarize the main points of your argument

• Repeat all the evidence you quoted in your body paragraphs

• Include lots of quotes...the more the better!

• Focus on the opposite point of view and why it is wrong

Which sentence is the BEST conclusion for this speech?

• Swainsboro never does anything I like, so I hope you do this.

• Please consider my request as it would greatly benefit our community.

• I do not want to go to school if you refuse to put in sidewalks.

• The middle school students will be upset if they don't get sidewalks.

A conclusion is

• your final say

• a wrap up

• something that includes all of your main points

• all of the above.

Read the paragraph and select the best conclusion.
  Everyone thinks puppies are cute, but having a puppy requires time,  patience and training.  A puppy has lots of energy and needs to be walked and played with everyday, often more than once a day. He needs to learn to use the bathroom outside not inside. This training requires a lot of patience. He also needs to learn basic commands like sit, stay, and heal.

• I think everyone should have a puppy.

• Looking back, I wish I had a puppy.

• In brief, although puppies are cute, there are a lot of responsibilities to having one.

• Therefore, you must train your puppy well.

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• B

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How do you write a conclusion?

• Writing a new idea

• Apologize for your views

• Restate your opinion

What does your conclusion do?

• Restate the topic sentence and wrap up your essay

• Explain your main ideas

• State your lead and topic sentence

• Essays do not need conclusions

draw a conclusion means

• connection between two or more ideas

• to make an inference or come up with an answer/opinion

• not real (but you get to create and use your imagination)

• something being in a piece of writing